Whether a child’s family is well-off or struggling for money has long been linked with their success at school. The gap between parents’ income and their children’s achievement is evident in kindergarten…

Want more working memory? Then you need to expand your brain.
Flickr/Elena GattiAugust 26, 2014

Before we had mobile phones, people had to use their own memory to store long phone numbers (or write them down). But getting those numbers into long-term memory could be a real pain. People had to write…

Not more RAM, working memory is what you need.
Mother and Daughter, Kyle Lee/ShutterstockMay 8, 2014

Cognitive difficulties are very common in children from impoverished backgrounds, putting them at risk of educational failure. However, it is not clear what influences the development of cognitive abilities…